SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Johnston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirty-five years after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s (NAGPRA) formation, federal organizations are still working through backlogs of inventory to comply with the legislature. This poster presents a realistic case study of how bioarchaeology can be a productive part of the NAGPRA process by detailing the steps that were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salvage archaeology at the port town of Las Lozas in Chile’s Huasco Valley yielded the skeletal remains of an individual from the Formative Period (1610-1180 calBP). These eventually found their way to the Copiapó office of the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (RUC0800416473-4) where they were analyzed as part of a larger project focused on the lived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xiaoya Zhan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Leprosy, caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis, is an ancient disease that has been reported across the world. As many studies explored leprosy in Europe, leprosy in East Asia is less frequently reported in bioarchaeology. In China, there are only two reports of leprosy so far, one in the Han Dynasty and the other in the Tang...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Ur.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New England long benefitted from the myth of a “gentler” form of slavery, framed in opposition to plantation slavery of the South. It is true that in New England, the enslaved typically lived in their owner’s homes, but this proximity to whiteness produced unique forms of violence and marginalization. The enslaved were not considered equal members of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maya Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spinning and weaving is an activity that has occurred throughout Mesoamerica in the production of textiles. Throughout the Formative, Classic, and Postclassic Periods and into modern day, textile production has played a large part in the power structure divisions of society and gender roles in Mesoamerica. Remnants of textile production can be seen in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katy Leonard-Doll.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites associated with prairies in western Washington provide invaluable information on the history of indigenous landscape stewardship and resource use practices. Archaeological evidence and oral histories indicate prairies in the Puget Lowland have been managed for thousands of years. In the course of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Snyder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change is an immediate and pressing global issue with wide ranging consequences. Research on living populations, though important, may fail to capture the range of possible human behavioral and biological responses to climate change. The cultural breadth and temporal depth of archaeological and bioarchaeological research offers a window into how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Cuthbertson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do we keep track of the patterning of settlements on landscapes when those landscapes have been altered? Predictive modelling and mapping has only grown more helpful to CRM field surveyors seeking to determine and focus on areas with higher likelihoods of cultural materials, often in expansive landscapes. Yet with urbanization and climate change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Obie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although the Canadian Great Lakes region has undergone enormous landscape inundation since 12,000kya, the archaeological potential of these underwater landscapes is rarely investigated. This is largely due to factors including the difficulty of detecting underwater archaeological sites due to sediment overburden, the destructive impacts of the Great Lakes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josefina Vasquez Pazmino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Amazonian region provides detailed data on sites classified as villages, hamlets, and temporary or seasonal dwellings, with a wide cultural and chronological diversity. Pre-Hispanic settlements, both nucleated and village-type, consisted of houses built on earth mounds and connected by plazas, roads, raised fields, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Izumi Shimada.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large and colorful bird feathers derived most from macaws and Amazon parrots (Psittaciformes: Arinae), offered not only striking appearances, but more importantly, communicated the religious and sociopolitical significance, and prestige of pre-Hispanic Peruvians who wore feather cloth mantles, head ornaments and/or held shields and/or staffs with such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabella Rosinko.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Shepard site (34CU220) is located along a tributary of the Washita River in Western Oklahoma. In 2001 construction of an oil well pad triggered a salvage excavation of the site. Based on radiocarbon dating, the assemblage represents ancestral Wichita material associated with the Middle Plains Village, Turkey Creek phase (A.D. 1250 to 1450). Previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delaney Horton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red-slip/film is a stylistic technique which has been used on ceramics since the Woodland Period across the Southeastern United States. This technique has received little research compared to other ceramic decorative techniques. Within the Caddo area, this technique was first used after A.D.1050 and continued for 500 years. In order to understand...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Borges-Eckert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pinnacle Point (PP) site complex, recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, is known for its abundance of evidence for early symbolic behavior such as pigment modification, shell collection for non-consumption purposes, coastal foraging, bladelet technology, and the first evidence of heat-treated stone tools. This, coupled with its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neal Payne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Marcham (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) is a multiperiod archaeological site that was excavated by the University of Oxford between 2001 and 2011. In this poster, we present the preliminary archaeobotanical results from 100 samples spanning the site’s Bronze Age through Anglo-Saxon occupation, with significant Middle Iron Age and Roman evidence. Iron Age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalei Oliver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary fieldwork in the comunidad campesina Yuco in the north-central highlands of Ancash, Peru has revealed multiple types of ritual spaces spanning the Early Intermediate Period to Late Horizon (1–1532 CE), from large public platforms to a series of terraced hilltops featuring gathering places and an estimated 100 burials. Ritual practices in Yuco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Winter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coyote Village (5MV820) is a 35-room pueblo with five kivas, one tower and an enclosed plaza that is part of the Far View Community (750-1250 CE) on the Mesa Verde Cuesta in the Northern San Juan region. In 1968 and 1969, CU-Boulder field schools directed by Robert Lister completely excavated all structures and also seven test trenches on the south and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Lassen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On February through August of 2024, archaeologists from AmaTerra, ERG Texas Services conducted data recovery excavations at 41AU103. Excavations were conducted on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) ahead of a bridge replacement spanning Mill Creek in Austin County, Texas. 41AU103 lies on a high terrace overlooking the east bank of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only LuAnn Wandsnider.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Circa AD 72, the Roman client-king Antiochus IV established the city of Antiochia ad Cragum, located in coastal southern Turkey, and eventually the city and its province was fully incorporated into the Roman empire. Isuarian incursions and Selcuk and modern occupations followed. Since 2005, researchers have been excavating shallowly buried architecture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Short.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. HDR is evaluating nine sites in support of Palo Pinto County Municipal Water District No. 1’s Turkey Peak Reservoir project located immediately south of Palo Pinto Creek Reservoir in Palo Pinto County, Texas. Several of the sites (41PP377, 41PP387, 41PP388) are deep, stratified sites with multiple, well-defined occupational layers spanning the Mid-Archaic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Zandarski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster outlines the methodology and preliminary progress of an archaeological monitoring project design to evaluate unforeseen effects of low-level military helicopter flights over cultural resources in southeastern Colorado. The study encompasses 12 sites, including segments of the Santa Fe Trail and a variety of prehistoric and historic site types....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Rodríguez Yábar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Casma valley, located on the northern coast of Peru, is crucial to the history of Andean archaeology, where the monumental buildings of the lower valley dating back to 3500 B.C. stand out. However, the middle Casma valley has received less attention. This study presents the results of an archaeological survey conducted in the southern section of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erina Baci.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents preliminary findings from the Atlas of Archaeological Sites in Kosova (AASK) Project, an initiative aimed at advancing geospatial analysis of archaeological data in Kosova by using innovative methods like remote sensing, drone imaging, and 3D modeling. The project's first major achievement is a comprehensive site database that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn Jacobs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and cultural heritage sites continue to be threatened by natural and anthropogenic influences nationwide. This project discusses UAV and 3D modeling applications conducted as part of a larger preliminary study regarding approaches to erosion risk assessment and documentation of archaeological sites in Kansas. To quantify erosion risk at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Lambert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long been interested in religious food restrictions and how they developed. The ethnohistoric record contains a rich account of the types of food that were restricted to past Native Hawaiians by social rank and gender. Such a record can be used by archaeologists to examine the archaeology of taboo in the Hawaiian Islands. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only SJ Casillas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site was discovered in northeastern Colorado in 1972 by the Jones family while clearing their land for agricultural irrigation. An analysis was reported by Dennis Stanford in the late 1970s, revealing it to be a communal Paleoindian hunting site. Excavations uncovered over 40,000 skeletal elements of an extinct bison species,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Forker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This poster describes preliminary historical research into the Roe Cloud Institute, a Native American boarding school located in Wichita, Kansas that operated from 1915 to 1935. Unlike other boarding schools at the time, this school was Native American founded and did not have the goal of stripping students of their native heritage. Rather than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine McEnroe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 2021, a team of stakeholders worked to develop an exhibition to showcase the breadth and wonder of archaeological materials excavated at Colonial Williamsburg. This exhibition, Worlds Collide, is the first installation in the newly established Margaret Moore Hall gallery in the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Our team worked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Kimbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rediscovery of a 1771 model plan by the Spanish military engineer Nicolás de Lafora for the building of presidio fortifications provides an important link between the Regulations of 1772 and presidios built after that date. The plan is the only known document that presents a visual representation of the new Spanish design for fortifications in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timpoko Hélène Kienon-Kabore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Land-use activities, notably mining and major construction projects such as the building of road infrastructure, have multiplied in recent decades in Côte d’Ivoire. Most of these activities have significantly impacted the environment as a whole, leading to soil disturbances that have resulted in the destruction of buried archaeological sites and remains....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Bebber.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For nearly a century, scholars and avocationals alike have been fascinated with Late Pleistocene North American Clovis lithic technology. Of interest here is that, although a magnitude of research has been devoted to understanding the performance characteristics of Clovis lithic technology, less scholarship has been devoted to evaluating the aesthetic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Madden.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the publication of Stewart Culin’s Games of the North American Indians in 1907, it has been well documented that the making of dice, and their use in games of chance and for gambling, was a widespread practice among historic Indigenous North American groups, and that prehistoric artifacts resembling such dice are present in the archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Welch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents a case study of one of the earliest cases of a secondary malignant neoplasm in China. The individual of the case study is an adult male from the Mogou Cemetery Bronze age site in Gansu province of Northwest China through ongoing Mogou Bioarchaeological Project. This Bronze Age cemetery site was in use from 1750-1100 BCE by the Qijia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Anfinson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2009, a constitutional amendment in Minnesota took effect authorizing millions of dollars for arts and cultural heritage programs. The State Archaeologist developed a Statewide Survey (SWS) program to further knowledge of site locations, cultural contexts, and property types. One of the first projects was to examine dating issues associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael Byrd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancestral secondary cremation (ASC) is a widely-recognized component of Phoenix Basin Hohokam culture, although the ways ASC varied through time remain unclear. This work seeks to understand how Hohokam people adjusted their crematory and depositional methods from the late Pioneer through the Classic periods (A.D. 700 –1450) by focusing on total bone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations along the ancient shorelines of Carson Lake in the Lahontan Basin and paleo wetlands of the Old River Bed delta in the Bonneville Basin indicate a diachronic reduction in projectile point size occurred across the Great Basin during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. Parallel shifts in lithic point morphology appear to have taken...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beau Murphy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While our knowledge of cultural chronologies and spheres of interaction in the pre-ceramic Southwest rely heavily upon analyses of projectile point types, data remains sparse in many key areas. An archaeological survey recently completed for the SunZia Wind project – projected to be among the largest renewable energy arrays in the western hemisphere – by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shevan Wilkin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Proteomic analysis applied to ancient materials presents a novel method for investigations into past human-animal-plant interactions and can shed light on both the taxonomy and tissues of recovered proteins from archaeological residues. We analysed 85 samples from residues from symbolic objects from South Africa, Kenya, and Malawi, highlighting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derick Juptner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lovitt (25CH1) site in southwestern Nebraska is an ancestral Ndee (Apache) peri-colonial village site. Often regarded as the type-site for the Dismal River Aspect of the Central Plains and Colorado Front Range, Lovitt has a large assemblage of lithic artifacts. Of these, are approximately 152 pieces of ground. Ground stone tools can indicate patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Schweickart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> In this presentation I use a pXRF analysis of the chemical composition of glass wine bottle seals recovered from John Custis IV’s manor house in Williamsburg, Virginia to investigate the development of mercantile networks in the early 18^th century British Atlantic world. Utilizing the documentary and archaeological record related to this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Bair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buried settlements are rich archaeological resources, diachronically recording the daily lives and repeated practices of ordinary people. But in their complexity and size, settlements present challenges for the researcher, often limited by time, money, and labor. This paper presents a methodology designed to address challenges inherent in settlement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In early 1540, hundreds of people assembled in west-central Mexico to start a journey northward searching for an overland route to Asia. The viceroy of Nueva España, Antonio de Mendoza, was sanctioned to conduct the exploration, and chose Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to lead it. The enterprise was one of the largest and most expensive in the early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Smeeks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Co-residence, spatial proximity, and built environments affect and provide context for the patterning and frequency of repeated, meaningful interaction between social actors and groups. Site-level analyses, in particular, provide insights on intrasite dynamics or the daily practices of communal affiliation and cooperation, as well as potential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell midden sites on the Salish Sea record the history of Coast Salish shellfish harvesting and can contain objects and features associated with seasonal camping and long-term residence. These places represent patterns of Coast Salish prehistory/history (Criterion A of the National Register of Historic Places), provide important archaeological data on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Sherman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Poverty Point site in northeastern Louisiana is notable for its concentration of local and exotic lithic materials. Advances in geoscientific methods, like non-destructive artifact sourcing, now enable accurate identification of material origins and movement. However, the first systematic chert sourcing program revealed limitations in the comparative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Blakeslee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various scholars have estimated the sixteenth century population of Quivira at up to 200,000 people, and we have clear evidence that the population of one town approached 20,000 residents. This raises the question of why so many people concentrated in one part of the Great Plains. Historic documents suggest that exports from Quivira reached both the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Real.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record demonstrates that both Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Human groups in west-southern Europe, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France, consistently included small prey in their subsistence strategies. Of the small prey species, Leporidae are particularly well represented in the archaeological record. Despite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Scott Cummings.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After a robust start that included dating bone collagen from 4 fish caught in 1939 and curated at MNHS, that larger project set out to investigate the accuracy of radiocarbon dates on various sample types in the state. Radiocarbon dates on fish ranged from 307-1225 BP, aligning with trophic levels. More dates on modern fish fall within this range. Modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Villeneuve.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Keatley Creek is one of the largest pithouse village sites in Western North America. For nearly four decades, it has featured in debates about the origins of complexity and inequality on the Plateau and among complex hunter-gatherers, in debates on prehistoric rituals, and in debates about methodologies and dating. Critical in all these issues is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Averi Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On July 4, 1884, two outlaws known as Rattlesnake Jake and Longhaired Owens came to Lewistown, Montana, and caused a shoot-out that forever changed the town's history. Immediately following the shoot-out, folklore surrounding the Independence Day event rapidly developed, inspiring ghost tours, reenactments, and parades. With only 17 eyewitness accounts to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Bridgeman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will explore how cultural creativity is employed by tribal nations as they redefine their relationships to traditional landscapes in the presence of colonial invasion. The Federal reservation establishment enforced settler geographical boundaries on top of known cultural landscapes. Colonial boundaries restricted free movement for native...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Blumenfeld.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents findings from an ongoing archaeological investigation of Hacienda del Rincón de Guadalupe, a middle to late colonial mining hacienda located in the contemporary municipality of Apaxco, Mexico. The hacienda was a colonial institution engaged in a complex interplay with the broader economic, social, and political landscape of Mexico,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estela Martínez Mora.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research conducted since 2010 at Conjunto Norte Rancho Aserradero (CNRA) has provided information on an elite settlement on the outskirts of the Tamtoc Rector Center in the Huasteca Potosina. The various funerary contexts studied, from the erection offering of the main building to the rich individual burials, provide data on funerary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Dozier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2019, Wichita State University has been engaged in archaeological investigations at the Boxed Springs site (41UR30) directly off the Sabine River in east Texas. The site, held on private property, has been of interest since the 1950s as a mounded Native American site with an Early Caddo cemetery and potential domestic features. This talk highlights...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kurnick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthropomorphic effigy censers figure prominently in archaeological understandings of Postclassic Maya peoples. Among other functions, these censers – which are often brightly colored and include elaborate accoutrements – facilitated communication with other-than-human entities and served as idols in calendric ceremonies. Although archaeologists have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby Manney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the United States, the management of cultural and natural resources follows distinct regulations and workflows, often leading to fragmented management approaches. Federal agencies, including the US Department of Defense (DoD), are increasingly interested in integrating these efforts to create more cohesive, inclusive, and synergistic management...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 30 years, archaeological research into the origins and development of the Preclassic Maya has greatly expanded, resulting in an enormous amount of material culture, which makes regional studies more feasible than at any time in the past. This project takes advantage of existing pottery collections from 13 sites in the Upper Belize River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden Bernard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relevant historical and documentary sources demonstrate the significance that seafood plays in the lives of people from the Chesapeake Bay area, both as an economic industry and as shaping culinary identity. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is North America's largest estuary, occupied by a wide variety of aquatic and non-aquatic fauna. Even with this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaleigh Trischman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a region once covered in mile-high glaciers, northern New England during the late Pleistocene would have offered a sharp contrast to its current ecology. Little is known about the flora that once characterized this region, resulting in reduced comprehension of the subsistence patterns of its inhabitants. Human environmental interaction at the end of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Agent-based modeling (ABM) has recently been applied by archaeologists to assist in the reconstruction of past societies. The ability to program agents to make decisions based on certain factors, such as landscape changes and cultural practices, allows researchers to explore issues such as settlement patterns, group interactions, subsistence practices,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kris Primeau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstruction of the acoustic phenomena that characterize sites, features, and other landscape locations are broadening our understanding of the multifaceted perception of sound, meaning, and embodied experience in the past. However, models, simulations, and on-site experimentation and recording are frequently tied to extant buildings and landscape...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Goring.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) inhabited Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene becoming extinct around 24kya during the Last Glacial Maximum. Cave bears coexisted with Neanderthals and early modern humans under similar climatic and ecological conditions, leaving traces to improve our understanding of Pleistocene environments. Within their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trenton Meier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research focuses on deciphering the paleoenvironments associated with lower Bed II (1.8 - 1.6 Ma) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in Eastern Africa. This dynamic time period includes multiple tectonic and volcanic events, the Oldowan to Acheulean technological transition, and the arrival of Homo erectus on the landscape. While research has been conducted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Duenas-Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Salón de las Columnas at La Quemada, Zacatecas, stands as one of the largest roofed structures in Mesoamerica, showcasing impressive architectural complexity and monumental columns. Despite its significance, limited research has explored the detailed construction techniques and ceremonial functions of this space. This study aims to reconstruct the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Weaver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aklis (12Vam1-42) is a pre-Columbian coastal site located within the Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge on the island of St. Croix. The site contains a meter thick, artifact dense midden, as well as a number of human burials actively eroding into the Caribbean Sea. Previous investigations of the Aklis site have focused on the salvage of human burials,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. May.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fiber perishable industries such as basketry and textile production were nearly universal among the late precontact period Indigenous Peoples of North America. Humidity and acidic soil conditions in the Catawba Valley of the North Carolina piedmont region inhibit the recovery of precontact period fiber perishables, and consequently such substantial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Solometo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recurring scene, found on petroglyphs and pottery associated with Ancestral Hopi villages, shows a central figure holding its face to a long, branching object that ends in circles, often surrounded by “assistant” figures. Consultation with Hopi cultural advisors indicates that the scene depicts an event of importance to Hopi people. Consideration of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Rockwell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Northeast (New England, southern Quebec, and the Canadian Maritime Provinces) red chert from the Munsungun Lake formation is often associated with the fluted-point-period. Despite this, repeated association clear quarry areas for red chert are uncommon within the formation. Nearly a decade of survey and excavation at the NKP complex, the only well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt O'Mansky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mahoning Avenue Pioneer Cemetery in Warren, Ohio may be the oldest cemetery in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The earliest burial dates to 1804 and the small cemetery was in use for nearly a century. Among the nearly 400 people buried there are more than 50 veterans of early wars, including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Snyder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Settlement and household archaeology in the Belize River valley have made considerable contributions to the corpus of knowledge on ancient people in the Maya lowlands. Variation in occupational patterns, sociopolitical systems, and other cultural elements has been identified diachronically through this research. This paper will refine the occupational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fourche Maline archaeological culture is said to have encompassed modern-day eastern Oklahoma, central Arkansas, eastern Texas, and western Louisiana during the Woodland Period. In eastern Oklahoma, the Wister Phase is described as a Late Archaic adaptation that transitioned into the Fourche Maline culture but is absent from areas outside of eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Ward.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mound-building and food production are often treated as two distinct areas of study in the archaeology of the Indigenous southeastern United States. Accordingly, the results of decades of research remain siloed – monumentality, funerary practices, and social organization on one side; hunting, fishing, gathering, and cultivation on the other. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Breyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Local responses, cultural connectivity, and material entanglement have been key subjects in Sardinian archaeology since van Dommelen’s work in the 1990s. Following the glocalization approach outlined by Roudometof, this paper foregrounds the adoption and integration of the cult of Demeter in Sardinia by locals and outsiders alike. Introduced to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Ferree.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Otter Creek site is one of five Bold Counselor Oneota villages in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV). While it is one of two sites in the region with little to no evidence of cohabitation between nonlocal Oneota and local Mississippian groups, Otter Creek has received far fewer archaeological investigations than other Bold Counselor sites. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emerson Richards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Peter Apian’s Cosmographia (1525) was one of the first printed texts to describe the New World and provide a map with a continent newly called America. Further, it included volvelles (circular moving diagrams which used to calculate navigational features) as well as a list of longitude/latitude coordinates of settlements newly encountered by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Batres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Building on previous research, this poster presents new paleoethnobotanical findings from the examination of nine ceramic vessels/sherds from the lowland Maya site of Holtun, Guatemala that span from the Preclassic through the Terminal Classic Periods (800 BC–AD 900). This study expands on earlier work conducted on ceramic sherds associated with burial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delaney Cooley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For years, archaeologists have utilized technological studies as powerful tools for understanding the impacts and negotiations of colonialism. However, lithics remain an overlooked or even oversimplified line of evidence for these studies, despite the social and cultural importance of stone technology. This paper addresses this deficit by exploring how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Life course perspectives on health consider embedded experiences over time, accounting for changes in biological, social, and environmental contexts that can explain differential outcomes explained by life history trade offs. Within this perspective, sensitive period models posit that risk exposure at specific times has lifelong effects on the structure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Everett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 2024 field season at El Remanso, a rural-residential site in the department of Escuintla, Guatemala, yielded a significant quantity of Teotihuacan-related ceramic vessels and figurines alongside distinctively local artifacts. The nature of interaction between Teotihuacan and the Maya area has long been a focus of anthropological scholarship, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Mofidi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A common complaint amongst employers and recent graduates is how anthropology students, particularly those focusing on the sub-field of archaeology, are not prepared to meet the demands of the positions available. While there are debates as to who is to blame for this, the primary focus should be on how both Cultural Resource Management firms and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Jurado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Ignacio is located in the Amatzinac Valley of Morelos, approximately 10 kilometers south of the Formative center of Chalcatzingo, where it was the largest site in Eastern Morelos during the Classic period (300 – 600 CE). Previous studies argued based on regional settlement data that San Ignacio might have been a Teotihuacan administrative center. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abbigail Reinhardt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant drought struck the Chacoan region and Mesa Verde around AD 1200, a likely factor contributing to the abandonment of Mesa Verde and prompting the ancestral Puebloans to migrate across the landscape. This research investigates the relationship between obsidian trade distributions and the migration routes of these groups during this period. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Norman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1870 and 1873, the Bender family occupied a homestead along the Osage Mission Trail in southeast Kansas. Historical documents indicate several structures on site, including a house, barn, outhouse, and wells. In 1873, a search for missing travellers along the trail lead to the discover of eleven victims buried on the property. By this time, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Johannesson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 1960s, features comprising vertically placed pieces of bone, commonly referred to as “bone uprights”, have been identified archaeologically at several bison kills on the Northern Plains. These features have predominantly been associated with Besant and Sonota Period sites and their interpretation has typically gravitated toward functional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Haynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1950s, the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California collected artifacts from 118 prehistoric sites that lay along the shorelines of ancient Lake Cahuilla. Although the disposition of these artifacts following their collection remains murky, by the 1990s they had been accessioned into the Imperial Valley Desert Museum (IVDM). Data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Derry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a ridge to the northwest of the original James Fort site, a large unmarked burial ground sits beneath the foundations of Jamestown’s third and fourth Statehouse structures and the current Archaearium Museum. This burial ground was first discovered in the 1930s and further investigated the 1950s. Between 2000 and 2004 a large section encompassing 65...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Steele.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Imperialism has had a dramatic impact on the lives and economies of directly colonized and subjected peoples. Many scholars have demonstrated that this impact takes a variety of forms depending on the proximity of the imperial center, imperial goals, the surrounding geography, and abundance of natural resources, among other factors. Limited research has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Pacheco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Acts of ritual, including events of ritual sacrifice, are seen as an exercise of power offering something with perceived value to the social world. Within discussions of ritual sacrifice lies a debate on the role in which humans, nonhumans, and the natural and built environment play in shaping prehistoric perspectives of the social and political...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Lamb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Alaska’s Kodiak Archipelago, and the North Pacific and Arctic more broadly, the anthropological conversation has focused heavily on the importance of marine mammals and fish to subsistence and cuisine. Plants are largely missing from the conversation despite strong evidence from traditional knowledge and historical accounts that plants—and especially...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Louden Ferguson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experiential learning is often held as the “gold standard” of public education. Unfortunately, this is often not possible within the limitations of elementary education. Archaeologists can provide an important benefit to public school teachers by introducing students to the archaeology of their local area; however, this generally takes the form of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Pastor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Antiochia ad Cragum was established in what is today southern coastal Turkey by the Roman client-king Antiochus IV around AD 72. Subsequently, the city and its province was incorporated into the Roman empire. The “Romanization” of this landscape included construction of an Imperial temple and the civic architecture emblematic of a Roman city. It may also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Close to a century of archaeological research in the Bajío region of Mexico has revealed a long-term record of human occupation, ranging from mobile hunter-gatherers to early farming villages, state-level polities, and later colonial settlements where indigenous groups interacted with European populations. These developments were shaped in part by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Logan Dean.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past five years, The United States Geological Survey's 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has provided archaeologists across the country with a new lens to view and interpret landscapes and landscape features. Until recently, the 3DEP had unfinished survey of a large portion of Southeastern Utah, which includes the majority of Bears Ears National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Macbeth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early 19th century, enslaved and free Black congregants built the First Baptist Church just off the main thoroughfare of Williamsburg, VA. Excavations at the site of the meetinghouse, ending in 2023, uncovered the remains of the structure and a cemetery within the associated churchyard. In this presentation, we explore why the meetinghouse was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Lemminger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recently discovered rock art site in Weld County Colorado showed significant signs of weathering. The panels were pecked into sandstone, a highly erosion susceptible surface. In a review of the other documented sites in Weld County, the authors found that erosion was noted as a significant threat to the majority of the resources at the time of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Comer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using data collected by satellite and aerial remote sensing platforms, we developed an economic model of human niche construction at the islands in the Pacific. We argue that types of niches are determined by human choice, given environmental conditions, which can be both assets and challenges. Deciding to surmount challenges increases cultural capital,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sportman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Hollister Site is a large English farm complex located on the fringe of early colonial settlement on the Connecticut River at Nayaug (present-day South Glastonbury). The two English families occupied the farm in the second half of the 17^th century, the Gilberts (1651-1663) and the Hollisters (1665-ca. 1715), were involved in local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Basil Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the care of the dead in museums at a newly imagined intersection of death work and curation. Recent concerns surrounding the ethics of human remains collections have resulted in many museums reevaluating their policies on access, display, and research of human remains and burial objects. However, these often reactionary projects are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Creel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Marginal landscapes, their inhabitants, and their traditions and practices, are often considered peripheral to broader regional and temporal trends in archaeological scholarship. However, these communities played a fundamental role in facilitating travel and generating innovation and connectivity across regions. Roadside ritual, also rarely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arvind Nair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The curvilinear guilloche design on pottery necks is one of the key criteria that has served to define the Fort Ancient culture in the Great Miami Valley of southwest Ohio. Yet, surprisingly, no one has attempted to fully interpret its meaning. Here we take a holistic approach to understanding the symbolic meaning of this design, beginning with...